Tie me up, tie me down

Porn legend James Deen is making the leap to mainstream Hollywood, where he’s in the running to play the lead in the Fifty Shades of Grey film

James Deen has starred in 4,000 adult movies since the age of 18 (Patrick Fraser)

James Deen is sitting at a bar on Ventura Boulevard, wearing his usual outfit
of blue jeans and black leather jacket. He’s small — impish, almost — with
tightly curled brown hair, high cheekbones, stubble, a long straight nose
and killer-cyborg-from-the-future blue eyes.

Oh, and he’s young: 26, to be precise; but if you didn’t know any better, you
might think he was in high school. Or, at least, that seems to be the
consensus among the 80,000 or so females, many of them teenagers, who follow
him on Twitter. (“Just saw your picture, oh my god, hotness overload!”
writes one. “I’ll be in my bunk.”) It also helps explain his frequent
appearances in the pages of style magazines, not to mention the TMZ.com
videographer who tracks him relentlessly, ambushing him during cigarette
breaks, demanding to know what he’s working on; which girl he’s dating.